Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: METZGER, MICHAEL J

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2142 2182 2183

This examiner grants 90% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

90.2%
Allow Rate
+35.2% vs TC avg
509
Total Applications
+8.1%
Interview Lift
986
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 482 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

6.0%
§101 Eligibility
14.1%
§102 Novelty
53.6%
§103 Obviousness
8.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18877106 VECTOR EXTRACT AND MERGE INSTRUCTION Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18520983 FILTERING BRANCH INSTRUCTION PREDICTIONS Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18509121 VECTOR COMPARISON AND/OR POPULATION COUNT OPERATIONS Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18355282 DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM Final Rejection Arm Limited
18149072 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMIC SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-THREADING (SMT) SCHEDULING TO MAXIMIZE PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE ON HYBRID PLATFORMS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18056949 CROSS-THREAD REGISTER SHARING FOR MATRIX MULTIPLICATION COMPUTE Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17856981 VECTOR UNPACK BASED ON SELECTION INFORMATION Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18770560 Schedule Instructions of a Program of Data Flows for Execution in Tiles of a Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Array Final Rejection Micron Technology, Inc.
18930458 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING Non-Final OA Research & Business Foundation SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
19111422 PROCESSOR THAT IMPLEMENTS INDIRECT ADDRESSING-STYLE CONDITIONAL JUMP INSTRUCTIONS, PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD Final Rejection TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
18876798 PROCESSOR FOR CONTROLLING PIPELINE PROCESSING BASED ON JUMP INSTRUCTION, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
18161830 COMPUTE-IN-MEMORY SRAM USING MEMORY-IMMERSED DATA CONVERSION AND MULTIPLICATION-FREE OPERATORS Non-Final OA THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
17710699 TECHNIQUES TO SELECTIVELY STORE DATA Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18620948 APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OUT-OF-ORDER TASK RESOLUTION IN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18935154 METHOD FOR PROCESSING INSTRUCTION, PROCESSOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing ESWIN Computing Technology Co., Ltd.
18619382 Reconfigurable Parallel Processing Non-Final OA XDL Technologies Inc.
18029232 CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT WITH MULTIPLE INSTRUCTION QUEUES Final Rejection UNIVERSITEIT GENT

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